Two Mid-South business owners are suing to get more than $200k back, after police confiscated the money. One of their Collierville workers is charged with serving up pot along with the pizza he was selling. The owners say they didn’t know anything about it.
Marijuana isn’t on the menu at Little Caesar’s on New Byhalia, but police say one employee at this restaurant was serving up pot with the deep dish pepperoni. Steven Barton was arrested on June 16th still wearing his Little Caesars uniform.
Police say Barton sold customers pot out of the where he was a cook and sometimes worked the register. The arrest was made after several people complained that you could get drugs with your take out.
“We had a cooperating citizen of Collierville go in as an agent of the police department and we did make narcotics buys,” says Collierville Police Captain Tommy McCaskill.
In court documents, Barton is accused of letting a customer buy pot with a debit card. Investigators say one drug sale was for $12. To keep the books balanced, Barton took cash from the drawer.
Barton isn’t the only one with court troubles. When Collierville police served a warrant to arrest Barton here at the restaurant…they also froze the restaurant owners’ bank account–seizing more than 230-thousand dollars from Julie and Martin Mathews.
Little Caesars is the world’s fourth-largest pizza company. Its approximately 1,800 delivery-carryout units are located throughout the U.S. The privatelty held company does not disclose sales figures.
Toni Bianco on August 5th, 2006 at 1:36 pm
Just wanted to say that my husband and I are also Little Caesars Pizza owners in Arkansas, and believe me this kind of thing could happen to anyone, and could ruin his business and give Little Caesars Pizzas a bad name everywhere, but the sad truth is that you can’t watch everyone 24 hours a day, and you should not be held accountable for some low life’s actions. We have known the Matthews for 20 years, and they are very family minded and have excellent morals, and I am very sorry that this had to happen in one of thier stores, they work hard and didn’t deserve this!!!!!! Believe me if they had even suspected anything of this nature, they would have called the police and helped set this idiot themselves, then fired and prosecuted him to the fullest extent, these are honest upstanding citzens who have been unjustly pulled into a terrible situation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!